Prestigious Tradin Firm, located in the Chicago Loop, is currently seeking a Senior KDB Database Administrator with strong Q-Programming experience. Candidate will fill and support the Trading, Quantitative and Financial Engineering team's demand for new KDB functionality by writing q scripts and applications and providing support of existing KDB applications. Another major responsibility will the Data Cleaning of KDB Time Series, development of sanity checks, filters and adaptive data cleaning algorithms. This includes Real Time and historical data used across the entire firm and across a wide range of asset classes. The Senior KDB Support Administrator will develop functions that provide access to KDB from various development platforms, including python and C++. He/She will actively participate in troubleshooting day-to-day problems with data quality and data flow. Other responsibilities will include managing the KDB time series repository and associated q library, developing tools to monitor the data acquisition integrity and the data quality and maintaining database and associated q libraries. The ideal candidate will have: -At least 3 years of experience with the KDB database-Proficiency in Q programming language-Knowledge of Scripting language, preferably Perl and Python-SQL and data modeling skills-A strong background in financial markets, financial products and historical market data. To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here